Re: Missing information on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:17:26PM +0200, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> On http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control I then found out how I
> could close it, namely with the "close" instruction, but also that this
> instruction was deprecated. However, there was no other instruction
> that would close the bug. I decided to use this instruction
> nonetheless.
>
> Only later I found out that the page
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer also contains information on how
> to handle bug reports, and indeed a way to close bug reports that are
> not deprecated. Apart from a missing beginner's guide that gives an
> overview that does not assume that one knows expressions like "NMU" or
> "BTS" by heart, it would be nice to have an explanation on how to close
> bug reports near the "close" command: Don't just tell people what not
> to do, tell them also what to do instead.
Hmm, this isn't completely true, since the solution is mentioned there
"(in contrast to mailing bugnumber-done@bugs.debian.org)" but you're
right that it isn't really obvious. I will add links to
Developer#closing to the references of the close command.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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